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Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / David Brion Davis.

By: Davis, David Brion.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xvi, 440 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0195140737 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Slavery -- United States -- History | Slavery -- America -- History | Antislavery movements -- United States -- History | Antislavery movements -- America -- History | Slavery -- United States -- History | Slavery -- America -- History | Antislavery movements -- HistoryDDC classification: 306.3/62097
Contents:
The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation.
Summary: A comprehensive history of the institution of slavery in the United States discussing such issues as the "Amistad" trials of 1839 and 1940, the Atlantic slave trade, biblical justifications for slavery, and British and American abolitionist movements.
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A comprehensive history of the institution of slavery in the United States discussing such issues as the "Amistad" trials of 1839 and 1940, the Atlantic slave trade, biblical justifications for slavery, and British and American abolitionist movements.

The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation.

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